• For how suddenly winter set in in Delhi. The smog, the chills, the fans being switched off. 
• For the awkward coexistence of high-pitched excitement about Iran and the sense that it's still distant (although it's not!)
• For being 30 for a month (and it doesn't feel any different) 
• For discovering that the Mt. Fuji puzzle that I'd thought had gone for recycling with newspapers was, in fact, safe at home - enough to make me jump with joy 
• For some promises that I will get to do something new that I'd been waiting for, at work